[PATCH v2][for-stable-v5.11] arm64: Unconditionally set virtual cpu id registers

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Mar 17 13:26:15 GMT 2021


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:43:19PM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Commit 78869f0f0552 ("arm64: Extract parts of el2_setup into a macro")
> reorganized el2 setup in such way that virtual cpu id registers set
> only in nVHE, yet they used (and need) to be set irrespective VHE
> support.
> 
> Fixes: 78869f0f0552 ("arm64: Extract parts of el2_setup into a macro")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
> ---
> Changelog
> 
>   v1 -> v2
>      - Drop the reference to 32bit guests from commit message (per Marc)
> 
> There is no upstream fix since issue went away due to code there has
> been reworked in 5.12: nVHE comes first, so virtual cpu id register
> are always set.
> 
> Maintainers, please, Ack.
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

It's a bit weird to have a patch in stable that isn't upstream, but I don't
see a better option here.

Will



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